Mark Bovenizer, pictured right in this November 2012 photo, has been charged with disorderly persons offenses for allegedly ripping down signs at the Somerset County Jail and speaking offensively to a corrections officer during a visit last month.Robert Sciarrino/The Star-Ledger

RARITAN — The attorney representing the husband of actress Amy Locane-Bovenizer said in municipal court tonight that she was working to quickly resolve the charges against him for allegedly having a foul-mouthed outburst and ripping down signs at the Somerset County Jail last month.

Mark Bovenizer, 41, of Hopewell Borough, did not appear in Somerville Municipal Court (held at the Raritan Municipal Building) this evening for two disorderly persons charges related to the jail incident, which allegedly occurred the day before his wife was sentenced for a drunken driving crash that killed a Montgomery Township woman in 2010.

Outside the courtroom afterward, his attorney, Remi Spencer, cited Bovenizer’s new role as a single parent to two young children, including one with Crohn’s disease, in explaining his absence.

Spencer told Judge William T. Kelleher Jr. that court officials had granted her request to waive Bovenizer's appearance, and said she was still waiting to obtain video of the alleged incident. The case was continued to a later date.

“I’m working very hard to see that this matter can get resolved expeditously,” Spencer told Kelleher.

“I would think it could be,” Kelleher said. “I would certainly hope it could be, based on what I’m looking at.”

Spencer responded, “Yes, it was a very difficult night.”

The alleged outburst by Bovenizer at the jail in Somerville launched a roughly 24-hour stretch that would include his wife’s sentencing and his alleged hit-and-run crash on a residential lawn in Hopewell.

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Bovenizer visited the jail at about 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 13 to drop off clothing for his wife, but “got all upset that somebody wasn’t taking care of him right away,” Somerset County Sheriff Frank Provenzano said Wednesday.

One corrections officer later reported that Bovenizer yelled and cursed at him, becoming “extremely hostile and verbally abusive,” according to an investigation report obtained by The Star-Ledger. Another officer said Bovenizer used obscene and offensive language toward him, the report states.

Bovenizer left with the bag of clothing, then ripped down signs posted at the jail, authorities said. When he returned shortly afterward, he dropped off the bag and admitted tearing down the signs, authorities said.

The next day, after his wife was sentenced to three years in state prison, Bovenizer received a copy of the disorderly persons complaint at the sheriff’s headquarters and “acknowledged ripping down the signs and using obscene language,” according to the investigation report.

Later that day, Bovenizer drove onto the lawn of a Hopewell Township home at about 5:45 p.m., striking a mailbox and an ornamental tree before fleeing the scene, police said. Based on the vehicle pieces recovered at the scene, township police tracked down Bovenizer’s 2008 red Lexus RX400H at a local auto body shop, police said.

He is scheduled to appear April 9 in Hopewell municipal court on charges of failure to maintain a lane, leaving the scene of an accident, and failure to report an accident.